World Champions Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya and Ethiopian Netsanet Gudeta will head the men and women’s elite fields respectively in the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 on May 27, the race promoters Procam International announced on Tuesday.
For both the runners, who were recently crowned the world champions at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, it will be their first competitive outing since their global triumphs in March.
Kamworor, 25, has established himself as one of the world’s leading distance runners in recent years, winning the last two world cross country and the world half-marathon titles.